NEW HAVEN >> What starts as a favorite season for many New Englanders is quickly turning into a nusiance and for a lot of residents in Greater New Haven, the snow can’t disappear fast enough.

And it may not seem so when looking out the window this morning, but weather forecasters say Sunday is expected to bring a break in the action with some sunshine, and the winds will die down. Temperatures will be around 20 degrees.

This will be welcome news for Ernesto Garcia, who is an owner of Ay! Arepa, which operates three food trucks and one restaurant. Garcia was setting up one of his food trucks on York Street around lunchtime Saturday.

“This weather is definitely bad for business,” Garcia said. “Less people come to the food truck, and we were closed Thursday due to the weather.”

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Garcia said he hopes there is no more snow because the weather causes them to lose too much money.

Angela Williams, a freshman at Georgetown University, said she is sick of the snow. Williams, who was visiting the Elm City for a conference at Yale University, said the snow causes unnecessary dangers, and it is hazardous.

“The melted snow turns to ice, people don’t shovel the corners, and then people almost get hit when crossing the street,” Williams said. “It is just bad.”

Molly LeVan from Hamden agrees. She said she is tired of the cold and dark.

“I like the snow, but it is an inconvenience,” LeVan said.

But others see it differently. The snow that hit the state this week is only the second time Yvonne Dangaran has ever seen snow.

“I wanted to go out and play in the snow and build a snowman,” said Dangaran, who is visiting New Haven from Oahu, Hawaii. “My son told me it was the wrong kind of snow, though. It was too fluffy.”

Dangaran and Ervin Hendrix, also of Oahu, flew in Tuesday to visit Dangaran’s son, who is a junior at Yale University. With more snow that was expected to start Saturday at noon, Dangaran said she was excited more snow was coming.

“This is going to be one of those ‘fine line’ storms,” Sam Kantrow, WTNH meteorologist said. “It is number 13 of the winter.”

New Haven County has a winter weather advisory as of Saturday morning. Kantrow said that since this is a “fine line” storm, much depends on the storm’s small movements. If this storm moves 10 miles west, the state could see 4 to 8 inches, but if it moves 10 miles east, it could only amount to 2 to 4 inches at most. The northwest portion of the state will see less snowfall.

The New Haven area could see somewhere around 4 inches and the eastern parts of the state, closer to Rhode Island, could see up to 8 to 9 more inches on top of what the state was hit with earlier this week.

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see 9 in some areas up there,” Kantrow said.

“This is a funky storm,” said Kantrow, adding “the annoyance will be the wind.”

“As the snow starts to finish, the wind will pick up,” he said.

Anne Marie Lycan, a visiting nurse who just moved here from New Hampshire where she was assigned for a year, had only been in New Haven for one hour when it started to snow. Originally from Oregon, she said she was excited for the snow to come again.

“I have a St. Bernard, and he loves to play in the snow,” Lycan said. “I love winter, and I am not sick of it yet. It is fun to play in.”

Dangaran and Hendrix were concerned about how the weather may impact their flight back to Oahu Monday, but were excited to see more of the winter weather Saturday.

“It is really fun to walk in, and I get to wear these ugly boots,” Dangaran said showing off her black boots.